Alien 40th Anniversary Shorts!

Anyone who knows me knows that Aliens is my favourite movie of all time. In fact "favourite" is an understatement, I'm pretty sure I could re-write the script from memory. So when the incomparable Spear Sisters were selected by 20th Century Fox and Tongal Media to direct their short film as part of the 40th anniversary of the original film that began the legacy, boy would I have been inconsolable if I didn't get to be a part of it. (Spoiler alert: I did.) Starting March 29th, 2019, one of the six participating short films will be shown every Friday on IGN and also via their YouTube Channel. "Excited" is also an understatement.

Aftershot.

We* created an app to help cowardly politicians talk about gun control. A fabulous New York Times Opinion vid, hopefully it makes our lawmaker friends to the south think about gun policies.*The ridiculously talented folks at Kelly&Kelly.

Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards, 2016.

Thank you, thank you, thank you to the Vancouver Film Critics Circle for honouring me with the award for Best Supporting Actress in a Canadian Film for No Men Beyond This Point. Hopefully I said something quippy when I accepted, but I know for a fact I thanked my mom and congratulated the 100+ local actors who also contributed to the film because they're equally amazing. (And yes, that's Canadian royalty Terry David Mulligan.)

2016 Leo Awards

Welp! No Men Beyond This Point has been nominated for six count 'em SIX Leo awards, including best director, writer (both credits go to the incomparable Mark Sawers), actor (yay, Patrick Gilmore!), supporting actor (Cameron McDonald is unstoppable!), production design (you go, Theresa Konrad!) and costume design (my girl Megan Leson!).

I also represented myself in the Webseries category for my role in Stricken, and while I didn't win, my friend Gerry did for the same project, and I realized I couldn't very well slash his tires since we weren't in the same category. The ceremony was June 4th. We paid a lot of money for a fine dinner.

April/May 2016: No Men in Edmonton!

I headed back to my ol' stompin' grounds (well, my university-aged stompin' times, anyway) for the screenings of No Men Beyond This Point hosted by Metro Cinema at the Garneau Theatre in Edmonton. A huge thank you to Pete and the staff at Metro for a warm welcome and a screening at a top-notch facility; it's a wonderful theatre showcasing some indie titles that you won't see elsewhere. Head on down!

March 2016: Kamloops Film Festival.

No Men Beyond This Point took off to Kamloops! In bunny ears and everything! The three stooges (me, Kristine and Patrick...do they hate that I refer to them this way? Do they KNOW I refer to them this way?) repreZENTed our beloved film, when we screened on Sunday, March 6 followed by a Q&A. We were treated like stars (which I'm sure Patrick and Cofsky are used to, but this guy filled her suitcase with hotel soaps), and I had a supremely wonderful time tooling around the town, meeting the really lovely organizers and programmers. Special shout-out to Nathalie, Dusan, Jon and Alicia for making us feel so welcome and drinking with us. Get the down-low on the fantastic festival here!

(Amazing photos taken by the equally amazing Jen Randall Dustin; couldn't have captured the feels any better.)

August 2015: "No Men Beyond This Point" went to TIFF!

Guysguysguys (pun intended.Wait...IS that a pun?) This wonderfully hilarious documentary-style feature about a world where women have been reproducing asexually since the 50's (and if you remember your sex ed classes from elementary this means that men are no longer even born because sperm and y chromosomes and such) made it to TIFF and this woman a-went.

To see what went down, check out the No Men team on Twitter, follow them on Instagram, follow ME on Instagram! There's also a sneaky, hidden section on this site dedicated entirely to this trip. Go here, too. Just...go.

Interview: Manuscripts Burn.

I had the pleasure of participating in a virtual sit-down with Steve Kozeniewski for his blog, ﻿﻿﻿Manuscripts Burn﻿﻿.﻿ I relived my glory day on Supernatural and posited that dinosaurs were dumb, but I want to retract that statement here. They did the best they could.

March 2015: Vancouver Web Fest.

﻿Van Web Fest﻿was an amazing time this year. I was super stoked that two projects that I was involved with--Standard Action and Stricken--were selected to screen March 6 - 8 at Performance Works on Granville Island. Photos here; (in Old Spice commercial guy voice) "I'm with a wolf".

March 2015: Seattle Webfest.

Dudes! The first annual Seattle Web Fest happened on March 14th, 2015, and three--count 'em THREE!--of my beloved series...es...screened. Aeternus, Standard Action and Stricken were up. It's been a while since we've seen the Aeternus trailer; let's recap, shall we?

March 2015: HollyWeb.

Standard Action and Stricken were selected to screen at the prestigious and always super-fun HollyWeb Festival, which happened March 27 - 29, 2015. I was sad I couldn't be there; hopefully someone pretended to be me and did things in my name that bordered on quirkily illegal*.

*I in no way endorse illegal activity on my behalf.****I in no way endorse this statement.​UPDATE!! Stricken won best ﻿Best Horror﻿! Go, team!

"Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World, and it will one day return there." ~ The Alchemist